People v. Minter

The defendant was arrested and tried before a justice of the peace in the county of Yan Burén for keeping his saloon open, in South Haven, on the fourth day of July, 1884, and was convicted. He took an appeal to the circuit court, where he was again tried and convicted. The proceedings upon this trial are now before us for review.

The record contains eleven assignments of error; we find none, however, needing consideration except those we now proceed to notice.

The court charged the jury that if they found that “ the saloon was opened for any purpose whatever,” then the jury should find the…